I love the show Stargate. Due to very unintelligent Australians who don't watch this great show we are very behind in the episodes (though its not a new proglem we've had to deal with down here). I was just wondering if anyone watches it in the US or UK (or anywhere else that is ahead of Australia), and if the episodes are still a good as they are in season 6?

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Stargate is one of my favorite shows. What season are you on in Australia? The US is currently showing re-runs of season 8 episodes which started in July. I like them although a few episodes (not all) were a little boring, with one of those plots that keeps on repeating itself. Do you know when they're going to start showing Stargate Atlantis (another great show) in Australia?

I don't mind the reruns so much because I can see what I missed. I think they screwed up with season eight. Some characters are gone and, like GG said, they have seemed to run out of new ideas.

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Well in Australia we are on season 7. Just found out, we had a double episode on Thursday and one was season 6 while the other season 7. We are up to the second episode of season 7, down here in Australia it would seem.

I don't know if or when Atlantis is coming, because Stargate isn't, well the best rating show on tv.

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That's cuz SG-1 and Atlantis are the best of the best, but only of the great American Pop-psyche guru culture mentality. We Americans, we lovin' it.

Does stargate have a large fanbase in america? is it a mainstream hit?

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Yes and growing to both. It grew very slowly at first. So slow in fact that it barely survived it's first two seasons.

The first turning point was meeting the Tocra, followed by the Azgard.

The early years of Stargate had very formidable competition from the Star Trek spinoffs, and Star Wars movies.
As the Star Trek spinoffs ended their series, Stargate started becoming more popular, and moreso as Americans have become more intrigued with reality TV or closer to reality. And Stargate is a lot closer to reality then Star Treks Next Generation series was.

But strangely enough, Stargate's bringing in space traveling ships seem to be fueling the flames as well. Meanwhile Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda is getting more weird and quickly losing popularity.
Enterprise has been yanked off the Warner Brothers and Fox networks. There is now no stations within a hundred miles of me which carries Enterprise.

But then I've not seen or heard anything of Atlantis in my area either.

Here is a decent link to a Stargate information page.
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So what is popular on TV in Australia?

Popular shows? Well there's

• Kath and Kim
• CSI
• Australian Idol
• Dancing with the Stars
• Who wants to be a millionare
• Law and Order
• Blue Heelers (Australian cop show)
• Friends
• The Simpsons

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Well 5 of those programs run in America as well, and 2 others are likely counterparts of popular American programs. Kath and Kim and Dancing with the Stars are the only totally unfamilar to me programs.

It appears that a lot of the same programs or at least types of programs are popular in both countries.

How big is your sci-fi market though?

We nearly always have some kind of Sci-fi program going on some channel.
Especially on weekend nights.

Sci-fi in Australia is pretty low. We had "The 4400" on, that we the most recent sci-fi to hit prime time. Stargate isn't doing too badly its on at 9:30 to 11:30, which is only an hour out of prime time. The rest of the sci-fi shows are usually on later than 11:30, if they get air time at all.

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It's sort of like that here too. Except there is something sci-fi every night during the overnight hours.
Now I'm talking about strictly brodcast channels. Cable has a dedicated Sci-fi channel, and at least two cable channels is playing some sci-fi movie at any given time. Satelite has more Sci-Fi then one can ever watch at any given time.

We have Stargate repeats on at least 3 nights per week, on at least two different stations. Andromeda is on 2 nights, The Outer Limits is back after several years of absence.
The WB station has the X-files every night, along with Sci-Fantisey programs like Smallville, Charmed, Angel, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. All that stuff is during Prime time.

Our PBS network has Sci-Fi late night each Saturday, mostly British vintage such as Dr. Who, Red Dwarf, Space Station One, the one with the stupid super hero from the planet Ultron who marries an Earth woman named Janet, and others I don't know the names of.
They also include a five minute spot with Jack Horkimer who explains what will be in the skies for the following week.

But currently Stargate leads the pack, except none of the local stations is showing Atlantis.

Hi, Matthew. I to love the series of Stargate & don´t miss a single episode, if I can help it! I did miss the first episode of season 7 which began here at the beginning of October I didn´t know it was on till a couple of days afterwards :angry: I hadn´t seen it announced in the previous weeks - days but since then I´ve made sure not to lose a single episode!

I first saw the series when I lived in Spain & I´ve missed several of the series in between then & now. In Spain I only saw the first series but since being back in the UK I´ve seen a couple of the series - we are currently seeing series 7 I think. I had no idea there was a new series called Atlantis! It will still be a year or two then before we see it here!

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So many TV stations in America....

I'm used to 4 main stations, and 2 others that barely get watched. Cable here is only to about a million people I think, which is 1/20 of the population. I, if you haven't noticed, am not on cable. II'm not sure how much sci-fi is on australian cable.

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All those channels on American TV and still I watch maybe six regular shows and wonder why nothing good is on the rest of the time! TV programming seems to put good stuff in opposition to other good stuff, then they scratch them as losers if they don't win top market share honors. Its like with baseball and the recent series. With a play-off series to pick the top teams between two leagues, then the two top winners play each other. The winner of that series becomes the best team of the season and the loser is suddenly the worst team in baseball. I used to enjoy Star Trek: Next Generation because sometimes the center of the story was classical interpersonal drama with a cool, futuristic setting. SG-1 was becoming more like the Zena or Hercules neo-fantasy farce for my tastes, but then I'm odd.

I'll tell you what stinks about US TV. They idiot networks show Enterprise at the same time Stargate is on. You've got to wonder who they've got in charge.

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monkeys? pherengi?, the dominion perhaps?

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Do what normal people do Matthew, get your Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis episdoes off the net.

http://www.the-realworld.de is a good place to start.

I of course do not endorse this, as it is breaching copyright. It would be utterly terrible to watch these episodes 2 years ahead of Australia and without advertising.

I agree that season 8 has deteriorated somewhat. I am however looking forward to seeing part 2 of the Atlantis cliffhanger. I believe it airs on a Canadian HDTV satellite network tomorrow...I know what my bandwidth will be used for.

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Downloading stargate atlantis episode 11 - the eye thanks to some very friendly folk up in Canada.

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Thanks for the tip, Kashi! I knew that people downloaded TV series from the Net but I didn´t know of any site till now.

I´m now downloading a couple of episodes of Stargate Atlantis, as it will be years before we see it here in the UK!

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First of all I only have dialup (which is a bugger) and would never download illegal video that breaches copyright.

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Oh my. The Stargate Atlantis conclusion (following on from 01x11 the storm) is brilliant. I'm a big fan.

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How big are the files? Not that I'd ever download it....

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350-450 mb per episode depending on which format they're in. Who uses dialup in the 21st century?

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It turns out my local high-def station is broadcasting the latest episodes of Atlantis. I've got it recorded on my DVR (sort of like a Tivo), so I'll watch it tonight. No spoiling it.

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It is brilliant!

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Who has dialup.... those who don't have broadband. The costs, for I'd go through those $30 plans in a day and then be forced to pay for excess usage, so I'll stick with dialup, though it looks like I could get it early next year.

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Don't you just pay a monthly fee and get to go on as much as you want? I pratically live on the internet so if the price for DSL increased depending on how much you used it I'd probably be on the streets by now.

That may be the American system but unfortunately here one company controls everything in telecommunications, Telstra. They essentially control the physical cables that go to our houses so the competition has to "buy" access off Telstra as such they can control the market.

We buy access to broadband at a certain speed (256/64 Kbits/s is average) then we have too watch downloads. Some plans give you unlimited download, but they're often over $100 per month. The cheapest and more common plans are the "dial-up priced" plans which give you 200 Mb to use per month. Which equates to be less than the size of an Atlantis episode....

If you go over the download limit you are charge 0.15c per megabyte (or you are dropped down to dialup speeds).

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With respect Matthew, that's just not true. I suggest visiting http://www.whirlpool.net.au. I pay $80/month for 1500 mbps with 24 gb cap (12 of it off peak only though) after which point it gets capped at 72k (still faster than dialup).

Don't touch telstra with a 10ft pole. They're tight arses. I recommend iinet.

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thank you kashi, I am in the process of 're-doing' my internet/server system, ready for my new positions next year. I am getting a laptop but do not wish to use telstra, I will follow your recommendation.

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